Maredydd ab Owain ap Hywel Dda

~ Brut y Tywysogion, p. 29, "985. . . .Maredudd, son of Owain, killed Cadwallon, son of Ieuav, victoriously, and subjugated his territory, to wit, the isle of Mona and Meirioydd; and all the districts of Gwynedd he subdued by extreme craft and cunning." 1095

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• Background Information. 926Maredudd ab Owain, King of all Wales. Maredudd had conquerque Gwynedd in 985, in a battle that he fought with Cadwalla ab Ieuaf. In the following year,he was driven from Gwynedd by Godfrid, the son of Harold. The Principality of Powys came to him from his mohter, the Princess Angharad, and he possessed himself of South Wales on the the death of his father Owain, in 987, to the exculsion of the sons of his eldest brother, Einion ab Owain.

~History of the Princes, the Lords Marcher, and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fadog, Vol. I, p. 66

• Web Reference: Dictionary of Welsh Biography, Maredudd ab Owain ap Hywel Dda . 1012Maredudd ab Owain ap Hywel Dda, king of Deheubart, succeeded his ages father as the sole ruler of Deheubarth in 986, and in the same year repeated the achievement of his grandfather by reuniting Gwynedd and Deheubarth for the period of his reign.